Recent content by chrisr224

I'm delighted that your horse escaped, the rivets pulling out of the alloy can leave, as they did in our case, razor sharp edges on the alloy. These could have cut your horse very seriously. Our partition fell when the other rear breach bar broke under the strain. Our horse had expensive...

Hi there, I suggest you go to my website http://ifor-horse-trailer.com/blog/ and look at the photos! The rivets tear out of the alloy sheet leaving razor sharp edges on the alloy which could and did in our case, seriously cut your horse. These injuries have the potential to kill so I do not...

Great to hear from you. Blog is on http://ifor-horse-trailer.com/blog/

Good to hear from you, I too trust your wife has made a good recovery now. I feel it would be better to discuss this more privately, if you post a comment on my blog we can set up an email conversation. As you rightly say your original post was hi jacked, I do not want the same to happen here.

It looks like the partitions failing is a common problem with this model of Ifor Williams trailers, looking at how poorly they were made it is not a surprise to me. I'm very pleased your horses were not hurt, imagine what could have happened if you had been forced to do an emergency stop in...

I have set up a Safety Warning website due to the accident we suffered due to the failure of the partition in our Ifor Williams 510 trailer - http://ifor-horse-trailer.com This shows what happened and why it occurred. The site goes on to show the modifications to the trailer we made with...

Absolutely correct! Moving horses is always a risk as is driving a car! Accidents happen and we have to live with them. The real issue here is that these Ifor Williams Trailers have been so poorly made that they failed and caused the accidents due to no fault of the horse or owner. If the seat...

Fun Times I too was amazed a the responses to OP's post. Some I presume are selfishly trying to preserve their position with their own Ifor Williams Trailers - Ostrich head in sand posture - it must be the user not equipment like mine! I posted a similar incident with details of a engineers...

Craig Jones, Not sure if you have seen my recent post, similar happened to us due to the poor quality of manufacture of the partition panels. I hope you did sue Ifor Williams and won your case. Manufacturing as poorly done as seen in our trailer is dangerous in the extreme - and punishable...

In NZ trailers are called FLOATS had us visualizing a wholly different horse transport system but a trailer is a float and a horse box is a horse truck! Our is an Ifor Williams HB510. The central partition is in three parts, a post in the middle off which hang two swinging partitions that are...

My post relates to an incident that has nothing to do with ramps, familiarity breeding contempt or anything you mention. Clearly many, if not most of the Ifor Williams Floats work OK but the way the partitions are put together is shoddy. If you are unlucky enough to get one that is very poorly...

This is probably a long dead thread, I trust you wife has fully recovered by now. We are in NZ and have a 2005 HB510 identical to the one we had in UK before we left. It has been used for daughters ponies over the years but daughters grow aand now she has larger, 15.2hh horses. Two weeks ago two...